Once Removed

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Cal</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The thing about </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>perfect </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>lives is that there's only one way for them to go-downhill.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I learned </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>that</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> after my first love broke my heart and an injury sacked my pro baseball career. Now I'm working a tedious bank job just to pass the time. So imagine my surprise when I find </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>her</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> in my first big meeting.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Barbara Murphy</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The one who got away is as gorgeous as ever and this time I'm </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>not </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>letting her go.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But it won't be easy. Especially when life throws me a wicked curveball that could destroy everything.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Barbara</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I met the love of my life when I was eighteen. Cal Chase was </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>everything</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> to me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I let him go.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>What can I say? I was young stupid and in pain. I thought I was doing the right thing for both of us.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For the next fifteen years I did everything I could to forget him. But now he's back sexy as ever asking for a second chance. I know I should stay away.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I can't.</span></p><p></p>